Aethra is Videoconferencing Company of the Year 2006

Ancona, Italy, -- 17 January 2007 -- Aethra SpA, a leader in the global video communication market, today announced that it has been chosen as Videoconferencing Company of the Year 2006 by Videoconferencing Insight, www.vcinsight.com, the web-based newsletter, internationally recognised as one of the top authorities on the world video communications scenario since 1996. 
The editor of Videoconferencing Insight, Richard Line, supported his choice of Aethra by emphasizing how the company has made considerable technical innovation and progress in 2006. As a result, “Aethra is now a clear Number 3 in the videoconferencing industry”, he said. 
VC Insight newsletter goes on to explain, “Aethra is offering the best technology available, stylish Italian design and some features that are better than competitive offerings. As Aethra competes fiercely with attractive pricing, this is a compelling proposition worldwide. Aethra now sells in over sixty countries worldwide and has a strong presence in China. Aethra’s market share increased in 2006 and is likely to rise further in 2007”. 
The significant achievements made by Aethra during 2006 include the enhancement of its range of videoconferencing endpoints with the Vega X5 set top and the offering of enhanced voice and video network infrastructure products for Unified Communications. 
In addition, 2006 saw the presentation of Aethra’s Vega X7 High Definition videoconferencing system, that has ensured the company’s position among the industry leaders with regard to HD. 
“Over the past year, Aethra has concentrated on developing new synergies and valorising existing partnerships. We are delighted to receive this award in recognition of our success at international level,” declared Marco Viezzoli, Aethra SpA CEO. “As well as enhancing our range or videoconferencing systems, we have become a real total solution provider for visual communications. Today, using solutions under the Aethra brand, we can build complex visual communications networks for its clients encompassing desktop, room system and infrastructure technologies including NAT & Firewall traversal and 3G mobile networks connectivity.” 
VC Inights’s Award citation concludes: “Aethra now delivers a complete range of high quality videoconferencing products under its own brand. Thus Aethra became in 2006 a complete global solutions provider for both videoconferencing systems and Unified Communications. Aethra is the third company to achieve this goal. That is why Aethra is Videoconferencing Insight’s Videoconferencing Company of the Year 2006.”